On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 11:13:24PM +0100, Andre Noll wrote: > > The immediate failure is failing to find the lopsub library since it > > configures for the build architecture. This happens as no --build nor --host > > is passed which would have happened automatically if dh_auto_configure could > > be used. Thus it'll have to be passed manually. > > Do you recommend to get rid of the override_dh_auto_configure target > in debian/rules?
As far as I understand it, you cannot. dh_auto_configure would pass options that configure does not understand. > I'm in favor of switching to something more standard, but I will > need your help. What's the best way forward to improve on the current > situation? Do you want me to apply your patch as is and push out the > result to the public repo? Is there anything else I can do to make > life easier for the Debian people? If you are upstream, you can try making the build system behave more like a standard autoconf one. We tend to expect that: * It uses a current version of autoconf that understands all options passed by dh_auto_configure (which could allow dropping the override). * Enabling use of dh_autoreconf. * Making the Makefile honour the settings (e.g. CC) detected by configure. However, you may also choose to keep the present behaviour and apply my patch to make it cross buildable. I recommend scheduling this update for the trixie cycle as bookworm is frozen and this is not an important bug. Helmut
